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MIAMI -- With the Miami Heat playing the most games of any team at this point of the season, an odd stretch of just two games played over the course of eleven days was welcome news to a team that had just finished a grueling five-game road trip that forced the team to play in every time zone possible and mounting injuries to their most important players. With a renewed focus on resting up and resetting their game-plan with more time in practice, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra has also apparently been tinkering with his guard rotations.
Lost in the lineup shuffle Saturday night before their matchup against the Toronto Raptors that saw MIke Miller move into the starting lineup for the first time to replace the injured Dwyane Wade was an unexpected move by the coaching staff to swap their point guards and give Mario Chalmers the starting job over Carlos Arroyo.
"It's something I've been thinking about for the last couple of weeks," explained Spoelstra after the victory over the Raptors. "It's a tough decision but it's not an indictment on Carlos. It's just something that I think will be beneficial to the team right now and I met with both players. It could change again. Mario has been giving us solid and steady minutes. He's been getting better at the things I want him to do."
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Source: http://nba.fanhouse.com/2011/01/23/heat-continue-to-shuffle-guard-rotation-in-search-of-right-combi/
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